March, 2006

What About Global Poverty?

by Peter Singer
The Conversation
March 25th, 2006

I should probably be distressed about being unable to pen a vigorous dissent to David Schmidtz, but when he writes “Poverty Matters, But That’s Not Inequality,” I can only applaud. It’s what I’ve said myself in One World, discussing whether trade liberalization has been bad for the poor. Showing that the WTO trading system has [...]

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Poverty Matters, But That’s Not Inequality

by David Schmidtz
The Conversation
March 24th, 2006

1. I have personally asked Edward Wolff, in a quasi-public setting (the workshop session on his contribution to the 2002 Social Philosophy and Policy volume on differences in wealth and income), whether he had any response to the Boskin report, given that Wolff uses the very measures that Boskin repudiates. Wolff’s response was that he [...]

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